So I feel like I should explain why I named the butler Winston, It's pretty simple, I just don't care much for the name Klien. (sorry the spellings probally wrong) Whats this, 99 favorites and 159 followers you guys are awesome, I'm glad you like this. well all this is done, so enjoy and I'm going to start chapter two of 'Flying Roses'. If your reading that one prepare for the feels.
Yang let out a slow breath as she stared at her sister, it had been months since she last saw her, months of worry and she was finally in front of her. 'But is she still my sister?' The thought wandered into her head as she stared at the girl in red in front of her.
"So tell me, What are soldiers form Vale doing this far into Atlas?" Ruby asked her.
Yang raised an eyebrow confused. "I figured out..." Ruby moved in a blurr swinging Cresent Rose at Yang's head, steel clashed against steel as Yang managed to bring Ember Celia up and stop the tip of the cuved blade.
"Ruby, I don't want to fight you." Yang pleaded pushing Cresent Moon away from her, behind her Weiss was climbing to her feet and she pulled Myrtenaster from it's sheath.
"You're in the way of my target, So either let me kill her, or die!" Ruby stated swinging her scythe at her sister, Yang ignored the pain in her heart and stood her ground blocking each stroke of Cresent Rose, sparks flying as the metal clashed.
"I'm not letting that happen!" Yang yelled firing a round at Ruby, she used her sembalance to dodge it easily.
Yang noticed movement and Weiss stepped up beside her. The blonde looked at her, "Get behind me." Yang ordered as Ruby jumped firing her weapon and using the blast to fly higher.
"She's after me, so I'll help beat her!" Weiss snapped. Yang took her eyes of Ruby for a second to look at Weiss. "She's mine." she growled
Weiss looked into the girls eyes and could see the emotions flicking through it, heartbreak, love, pain, betrayal. 'Just who is she to her.' Weiss wondered. "Are you sure?" She asked unsure if this soldier could fight the Reaper.
"Get back, she's coming." Yang said pushing Weiss back as Ruby mixed her sembalance with the power of her gun to fly down so fast she had become a red blur.
As she reached Yang she swung the deadly scythe down hard. Yang caught the shaft with one hand but the force made her arm buckle and the tip of the blade sank through the armor on her shoulder, she could feel the blade brushing her skin.
Ruby wasn't playing, she was really out to kill her Yang realised as she held onto the shaft keeping Ruby suspended in the air not far from Yang's face.
She had been wrong, her heart was shattering as she realized that Ruby was no longer here. And if this Reaper wanted to fight. Yang swung her free hand punching Reaper in the face with everything she had, the mask cracked and her head yanked to the side before coming back to look at Yang who glared back at the silver eyes behind the mask, her own had turned from lilac to red.
"You wanted a fight, you fucking have one!" Yang roared letting go of the scythe and slamming both fists into the girl's body firing Ember Celia into her the force slung the Reaper backwards ripping her sythe from the armor,
The Reaper flipped through the air smoke rising from her charred shirt and she hit the ground and rolled.
Yang ran forwards towards the downed girl, fire rising from her blonde hair. Before the Reaper could get up Yang punched her in the top of the head slaming her face in the dirt and a boot smashed into her mask flipping her onto her back.
Gripping her scythe the Reaper swung it at her body but Yang punched the shaft swatting it away. She knew how to handle scythe weilders, if you could keep them from moving to much and stay close to their body you could easily beat them to a pulp, which is exactly what Yang planned to do.
"Did you forget something?" The Reaper asked with a chuckle and Yang stopped, her fist raised over her little sister.
"Wolves run in packs." The Reaper breathed softly. Yangs eyes widened and she turned around, Weiss was watching them intently but a short distance behind her a black blur was moving fast across the grass towards her like a shadow.
'The Black Death.' Yang realized as she twisted around and started to run towards Weiss but the Reaper snaked her foot out tripping Yang, she stumbled and fell face first on the ground.
"Behind you Schnee!" Yang shouted in warning as she scrambled away from the curved blade that sunk into the ground near her as the Reaper climbed to her feet.
Weiss turned around lifting Myrtenaster on impulse and blocked the blade from the girl she reconised from the news. Another highly wanted criminal was here for her head. She wondered how many where lurking around.
Yang rolled onto her feet dodging another close swing from the scythe before glancing over to see how Weiss was doing, she was holding her own against the cat faunas pretty well.
Before she could look back a weight hit her hard in the chest even through the armor and knocked the breath out of her as she felt arms being wrapped around her waist and she was lifted off her feet and flown backwards through the air at a inhuman speed before Yang could do anything they had already cleared the expasive yard and entered the thin grove of trees around the property.
The hands around her disapeared and she fell on to the ground and rolled backwards stopping in a crouch and jumped to her feet ready for another onslaught but the Reaper was just standing there a few yards away, her scythe already compacted down and put away.
"This is far enough away." The Reaper stated letting out a heavy sigh. Before Yang could speak the Reaper turned and faced her. "I'm glad you got my message sister."
"Ruby?" Yang questioned as she lowered her fists, had she been wrong, was her sister still there? Underneath that mask of death.
"I don't want to kill her but they know my weakness so I can't hold back." Ruby said holding her hand up in front of her face as if she was inspecting it.
"Sis you don't have to do this, come back with me." Yang pleaded stepping forwards but Ruby looked at her and she froze. "I can't come back my sins are to many." She said looking at the back of her hand.
"Yes you can. The world doesn't know that it's you beneath that mask." Yang reasoned, she wanted her back, so she could keep her safe.
"But I know it's me, I know what I've done, who I've killed. Even now I can see them all around me." Ruby said looking around through her eyes she could see them, ghosts of those she killed slipping through the trees quietly, even walking around Yang as they headed towards her to surround her and choke her.
"Come back, I can help you, we can get through this Ruby!" Yang shouted her hands turning to fists.
Ruby sighed shaking her head. "You still don't get it."
"What don't I get?" Yang asked.
"I'm not Ruby, you can't help me."
Yang's eyes widened, was it true, was this not Ruby. Her eyes searched the girl in front of her, her heighth, her hair, the way she stood, the way she fought, her sembalance, and even her clothes, she reconised the shirt even if it was burnt now. Ruby had bought it last year when they had went shopping together.
But their was a diffrence, the way she moved was all wrong, Ruby bounced when she moved as if she was happy just taking a step, but now her movements were slow, and calm as if a weight was pushing her down. And the way she talked was diffrent, her voice was monotone and she even spoke words diffrently then she did before, as if they had a diffrent accent.
She was Ruby, but she had changed so much in her time with the Fang and she couldn't help but wonder what they did to make her like this.
"Then who are you?" Yang asked, if this was a game, then she would play along. "Ruby made me to protect her after she was torn apart." The Reaper stated.
"What do you mean torn apart!" Yang shouted fear in her voice.
"You can ask her that one day." the Reaper stated turning away from Yang but she froze and placed her hand over her mask.
"She want's to talk to you." The Reaper asked grabbing her mask. "But only for a bit, I must protect her." she breathed looking at Yang and pulled the mask away.
Ruby was crying, tears rolling down her face. "Yang." she hicced between sobs. Yang felt her heart clench, she was there, everything was back, her voice no longer monotone, her sister was here. "Ruby!" Yang cried stepping forwards but Ruby held out her hand. "Stay back!" She screamed making Yang stop.
"Yang..." Ruby breathed out slowly, heartbreakingly, "You have to save me, I've become a monster and I can't stop!"
Before Yang could speak the mask was back on. "There, now you see." The Reaper said all pain and sadness gone from her voice.
"What have you done!" Yang screamed at the Reaper. She cocked her head slightly, "I haven't done a thing, I'm protecting her where you didn't, did you know she calls your name in her sleep." The Reaper leaned her head the other way, "And another thing, that Schnee your suppose to protect...You might want to hurry before Black kills her, or I do, and the only way you can stop me is to beat me."
Yang felt something in her snapp and fire rose out of her hair as she flew forwards. "Yes, Don't hold back or I'll kill you both." She said before Yang's fist slammed into the mask slinging the Reaper backwards through the trees.
And beneath the mask Ruby cried.